* Cops are asking the public’s help in finding this city cab driver (above) who they say sexually assaulted a woman passenger in the back seat of his taxi last week.

The 24-year-old victim hailed the unidentified man’s yellow cab in Midtown on April 21 and was driven to Forest Hills.

When the cab pulled over at 12:45 a.m., the driver allegedly climbed into the back seat and sexually assaulted her before she jumped out of the car.

The man is in his late 30s, stands 5-foot-7 and weighs about 135 pounds. He is thin with black hair. (lcf)

* A Brooklyn man was arrested in a hit-and-run that left a pedestrian critically injured in Bellerose, police said yesterday.

Glaston Mitchell, 41, was driving south on the Cross Island Parkway around 11 a.m. last Saturday when his white Volvo slammed into a 39-year-old man crossing the parkway near Jamaica Avenue, cops said.

As Mitchell drove off, a witness wrote down his license plate number. Police traced the car to Mitchell and arrested him at his East New York home Tuesday. He was charged with leaving the scene of an accident.

THE BRONX

* A school safety agent was charged yesterday with having a sexual encounter with a 15-year-old student.

Gabriel Ortega, 25, was charged with sodomy yesterday after an NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau investigation showed he had inappropriate sexual relations with the young girl in January 2003 at Taft HS, a source said.

Ortego, who had been reassigned to a Brooklyn school while the investigation continued, has now been suspended without pay.

Another school safety agent was charged yesterday by the state attorney general’s office with submitting a phony birth date and social security number on an undisclosed government document, according to a law enforcement source.

Nelson Fernandez, 56, was charged with making false statements and suspended without pay. Authorities only said he works at a Bronx school. (lcf)

* A 78-year-old motorist was killed in Norwood yesterday when a city bus slammed into him as he tried to drive his car around it, cops said.

The man, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was driving alone in his green Chrysler south in the right lane of Webster Avenue, while a Bx55 bus with four passengers was in the left lane. The accident occurred just before 1:30 p.m. as the man tried to cut in front of the bus to make a turn at East 204 Street, police said.

The man was rushed to North Central Bronx Hospital where he died, while the bus passengers and driver all suffered minor injuries. Two passengers were treated and released at St. Barnabas Hospital, while the others refused medical attention, cops said.

The bus driver was not charged with a crime. (lcf)

* Cops are asking for the public’s help in finding the boyfriend of the 37-year-old Guyanese immigrant found slain inside her Bronx home earlier this week.

Jacob Cecil (above), 57, may have skipped town after Waheeda Khan, was shot in the head inside her first-floor Blackrock Avenue apartment in the Castle Hill section early Tuesday morning, police said.

Cops want to question Cecil, who was last seen in the apartment the morning of his girlfriend’s death.

Cecil, who is Guyanese, is 5-foot-9, 160 pounds and is clean-shaven with black hair. (lcf)

* A 43-year-old man was stabbed to death by a thug who robbed him blocks away from his Tremont home, cops said.

Rafael Lana was walking near East 188th Street and Elm Place at 4:35 a.m. yesterday when the mugger jumped out at him and demanded the gold chain he had around his neck. Lana refused and the two began to struggle, cops said.

Lana was stabbed once in his left arm and once in the stomach. The thug ran off with Lana’s chain and left him bleeding on the street, police said. He was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he died just after 9 a.m. (lcf)

* A 32-year-old man was shot twice during an argument in a Longwood building, police said.

The man was in the lobby of an apartment building on Bryant Avenue near East 165th Street around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. He was taken to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition.

The gunman fled.

BROOKLYN

* A Canarsie man surrendered to 69th Precinct cops yesterday on charges he repeatedly stabbed his former gay lover while he was sleeping, police said.

Hughentz Janvier, 24, walked into the Foster Avenue station house on Tuesday and was charged with assault in the April 22 attack on Gregory Clemons at his East 82nd Street home.

At around 4:30 a.m., Janvier climbed through an open window to enter Clemons’ bedroom while brandishing a knife.

Clemons was jarred out of his sleep when Janvier began stabbing him in the hand, chest and head.

Clemons was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he received numerous stitches to his mouth and hand.

* A 34-year-old woman tried to strangle her boyfriend with a cord on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street, cops said.

Elizabeth Rodriguez was arguing with Michael Hernandez at St. Marks and Ralph avenues around 3 a.m. Tuesday, when she wrapped a cord attached to a fan around Hernandez’s neck and began to choke, cops said.

* A gunman fatally shot a young man yesterday on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street, authorities said.

The assailant walked up to his victim and shot him in the head near the Franklin Avenue C train station around 1 a.m. Transit cops and witnesses heard the shots and called 911.

The wounded man, in his 20s, died at Interfaith Hospital. The shooter was described as a black man wearing a gray sweatshirt.

* A Coney Island woman was arrested on burglary charges in connection with stealing cases of motor oil from a towing company, authorities said yesterday.

Evelyn Estrada, 41, and a male accomplice scaled a fence at G&L Towing and Scrap on West 16th Street around 1 a.m. Tuesday.

While her accomplice went into an office to steal two cases of motor oil, Estrada was confronted by 65-year-old owner Lewis Green.

Estrada pulled out a metal bar and swung it at Green’s head, but missed. She then scaled the fence and fled with her accomplice. Later on, Green saw Estrada on West 19th Street and called 911. When cops arrived, they caught Estrada and recovered the property.

* A 19-year-old man was shot in the leg when a thug approached him and opened fire on a Bushwick street, cops said yesterday.

Police do not know what triggered the 9:10 p.m. attack Tuesday, which took place at Bushwick Avenue and Broadway. The victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

STATEN ISLAND

* A 25-year-old man was arrested for beating his girlfriend with a piece of plywood in her Stapleton home, police said.

Sergio Reyes went to see his child at the woman’s Chestnut Avenue apartment around 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

After Reyes forced his way into her home, the woman tried to push him out the door. Reyes then grabbed a piece of wood from the floor and hit the woman, cops said. He then allegedly punched his teenage child in the face.

Police arrested Reyes Tuesday and charged him with assault and endangering the welfare of a child.